The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in some parts of the world, so you might expect them to sweep across the entire tropics. But there's one area of the tropics where ...

WHEN THE Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt arrived in South America in 1799, the colours astonished him. “Look at the blossoms, the birds,” he wrote. “Even the crayfish are blue and yellow.” ...

A boundary of air, wrapped like a belt around the earth's equator, is keeping the polluted atmosphere of the Northern Hemisphere separate from the relatively pristine south, say UK researchers. The ...

The 2025 winter solstice falls on Sunday, Dec. 21, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern ...

Africa's second-longest river, the Congo, is a global marvel, uniquely crossing the Equator twice. This immense waterway, the ...

Rituals can seem strange to outsiders, and the equator crossing ceremony is a dramatic maritime tradition rooted in centuries of naval history. Originating over 400 years ago, it initiates sailors ...

The “Emerald of the Equator” (Zamrud Khatulistiwa) or Indonesia is home to an estimated 252 million people living on 17,000 islands. It is famous for its rich history and hundreds of unique cultures ...

The biggest hurdle the Air Force has to overcome with hypersonic flight is the heat generated between the jet and the air at ...

Figure 1: Annual-mean precipitation, surface winds, and atmospheric energy balance. Figure 5: Atmospheric meridional energy flux and energy flux equator. However, equation (2) is merely an energy ...

This Ecuador motorcycle day starts in Quito and rides out to Otavalo for the largest indigenous market in South America, then continues to the Equator monument where finally crossing that line feels ...

Turkish firm CTech has delivered satellite communications (satcom) systems to support unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) ...